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INSERT INTO wp_bdprss_items_v3 (item_feed_id, item_url, item_name, text_body, item_update_time, item_time, item_date) VALUES ('37', 'http://crooksandliars.com/node/25014', 'Open Thread', '<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/UYR1fGSK4U0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" width="300" height="184"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UYR1fGSK4U0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" /><param name="type" value="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="width" value="300" /><param name="height" value="184" /></object><p> My favorite John Lithgow role, Lord John Worfin from <a href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Buckaroo Banzai</a>, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year. Gawd I'm old. </p> <p>Thanks for voting for <a href='http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-liberal-blog/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Crooks and Liars</a>, <a href='http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-individual-blogger/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Driftglass</a>, and <a href='http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-midsize-blog/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Suburban Guerrilla</a> (Susie Madrak) at the Weblog Awards. (links point to the voting ballots and may have busy servers. Be persistent!) </p> <p>Open Thread below....</p> <p><a href='http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/t__lGBg71WKxz4phSairgr1j8vw/a' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/t__lGBg71WKxz4phSairgr1j8vw/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?a=GCHLkdZl' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?d=41" border="0"></img></a> </div>', '1231331663', '1231331663', '2009-01-07')
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INSERT INTO wp_bdprss_items_v3 (item_feed_id, item_url, item_name, text_body, item_update_time, item_time, item_date) VALUES ('37', 'http://lnmc.crooksandliars.com/andy-k/late-night-music-club-rip-ron-asheton-stoog', 'Late Night Music Club: RIP Ron Asheton of The Stooges', '<p>(h/t Howie for letting us know) </p> <p>From <a href='http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200990106024' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>The Detroit Free Press</a>:</p> <p>Ron Asheton, the influential guitarist for legendary punk band the Stooges, was found dead early this morning at his home in Ann Arbor, police said.</p> <p>I feel like I was punched in the stomach, so I'm going to have to lean on the late Lester Bangs, from his epic, two-part (<a href='http://www.creemmagazine.com/_site/BeatGoesOn/IggyPop/OfPopAndPiesPt001.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>here</a> and <a href='http://www.creemmagazine.com/_site/BeatGoesOn/IggyPop/OfPopAndPiesPt002.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>here</a>) Of Pop and Pies and Fun (a 1970 critique of The Stooges LP Funhouse) do the heavy lifting:</p> <blockquote><p><em>Well, a lot of changes have gone down since Hip first hit the heartland. There's a new culture shaping up, and while it's certainly an improvement on the repressive society now nervously aging, there is a strong element of sickness in our new, amorphous institutions. The cure bears viruses of its own. The Stooges also carry a strong element of sickness in their music, a crazed quaking uncertainty and errant foolishness that effectively mirrors the absurdity and desperation of the times, but I believe that they also carry a strong element of cure, of post-derangement sanity. And I also believe that their music is as important as the product of any rock group working today, although you better never call it art or you may wind up with a deluxe pie in the face. What it is, instead, is what rock and roll at heart is and always has been, beneath the stylistic distortions the last few years have wrought. The Stooges are not for the ages—nothing created now is—but they are most implicitly for today and tomorrow and the traditions of two decades of beautifully bopping, manic, simplistic jive...</em></p></blockquote> <blockquote><p><em>...[T]he Stooges' music is like that. It comes out of a primal illiterate chaos gradually taking shape as a uniquely personal style, emerges from a tradition of American music that runs from the primordial wooly rags of backwoods bands up to the magic promise eternally made and occasionally fulfilled by rock: that a band can start out bone-primitive, untutored and uncertain, and evolve into a powerful and eloquent ensemble... </em></p></blockquote> <p>And a word of advice: If you're in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area, and you feel the urge to light a candle, please do so outside of Ypsi's famed Stooges Wax Museum. The last time a Stooge died (Dave Alexander, in 1975), candles lit inside the museum did permanent damage to the original 15 feet-high wax-replica wah-wah pedal. The current 25 footer wasn't created until 1988. So please, be careful.</p> <p>RIP, Ron.</p> <p><a href='http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TXFXt5nh-VbY-dOd6qgDbU7pIpg/a' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TXFXt5nh-VbY-dOd6qgDbU7pIpg/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?a=lZbvU8Wy' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?d=41" border="0"></img></a> </div>', '1231331663', '1231331662', '2009-01-07')
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INSERT INTO wp_bdprss_items_v3 (item_feed_id, item_url, item_name, text_body, item_update_time, item_time, item_date) VALUES ('37', 'http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/obamas-pick-surgeon-general-cnns-sanj', 'Obama's Pick For Surgeon General: CNN's Sanjay Gupta', '<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/oR2U_SAWHdQ&hl=en&fs=1" width="300" height="243"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oR2U_SAWHdQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /><param name="type" value="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="width" value="300" /><param name="height" value="243" /></object><p>Sanjay Gupta vs. Michael Moore on the national health care system on Larry King Live, July 2007</p> <p><a href='http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/01/06/sanjay-gupta-surgeon-general/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>WSJ Health Blog</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>The <a href='http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2009/01/06/obama_wants_journalist_for_sur.html?hpid=topnews' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Washington Post</a> is reporting that Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Sanjay Gupta. He’s expected to accept the job, the Post says, citing two unnamed sources. Gupta declined the Post’s request for comment. </p> <p>Besides his <a href='http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/gupta.sanjay.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>CNN gig</a>, Gupta also appears on <a href='http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/17/utility/main2369456.shtml' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>CBS</a> and <a href='http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1703763_1703764_1710554,00.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>writes for Time Magazine</a>. He was a White House Fellow and a special adviser to Hillary Clinton when she was First Lady. Oh, and he’s a <a href='http://www.neurosurgery.emory.edu/FacultyGupta.htm' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>neurosurgeon at Emory</a> and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital. </p> <p>There’s a certain logic to picking a TV talking head to be <a href='http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>surgeon general</a>, because the surgeon general is largely a talking head. The top doc does oversee the 6,000-member <a href='http://www.usphs.gov/aboutus/questions.aspx#whatis' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service</a>, but the real work of the job is traveling around the country, using the title as a bully pulpit to advance a public health agenda.</p></blockquote> <p>Of course, it would be nice if he used that bully pulpit to advocate for Universal Health Care, which would be the single best news for public health in this country, but it doesn't appear that Dr. Gupta thinks there's a problem. <a href='http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/the-trouble-with-sanjay-gupta/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Paul Krugman agrees</a>: </p> <blockquote><p>I don’t have a problem with Gupta’s qualifications. But I do remember his <a href='http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-07-16-sicko-CNN_N.htm' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>mugging</a> of Michael Moore over <em>Sicko</em>. You don’t have to like Moore or his film; but Gupta specifically claimed that Moore “fudged his facts”, when the truth was that on every one of the allegedly fudged facts, Moore was actually right and CNN was wrong.</p> <p>What bothered me about the incident was that it was what <a href='http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Digby</a> would call Village behavior: Moore is an outsider, he’s uncouth, so he gets smeared as unreliable even though he actually got it right. It’s sort of a minor-league version of the way people who pointed out in real time that Bush was misleading us into war are to this day considered less “serious” than people who waited until it was fashionable to reach that conclusion.</p></blockquote> <p><a href='http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/hq92iGjlDBUGFXSIp7kuD6Iyahs/a' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/hq92iGjlDBUGFXSIp7kuD6Iyahs/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?a=BZo9c5K5' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?d=41" border="0"></img></a> </div>', '1231331663', '1231331661', '2009-01-07')
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INSERT INTO wp_bdprss_items_v3 (item_feed_id, item_url, item_name, text_body, item_update_time, item_time, item_date) VALUES ('37', 'http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/obama-panetta-breaking-past', 'Obama on Panetta: 'Breaking with ... the past'', '<p><span class="clmediaDirectImage"><img src='http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/movieimages/2009/01/7058.dl.jpg' alt="Obama-Panetta" /></span><br /><span class='clMediaOld'><img src='http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/mediaimages/video_wmv_icon.gif' alt='icon' /> <a href='http://movies.crooksandliars.com/msnbc_n_obama_panetta_comment_090106a.wmv?mid=7058' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Download</a> | <a href='http://crooksandliars.com/media/play/wmv/7058/25051' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Play</a> <img src='http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/mediaimages/video_qt_icon.gif' alt='icon' /> <a href='http://movies.crooksandliars.com/msnbc_n_obama_panetta_comment_090106a.mov?mid=7058' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Download</a> | <a href='http://crooksandliars.com/media/play/qt/7058/25051' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Play</a></span> [H/t Dave]</p> <p>It's been assumed that Barack Obama's planned nomination of Leon Panetta as CIA chief was intended to send a signal to the intelligence community about the use of torture. And Obama made that explicit in his press conference today:</p> <blockquote><p>REPORTER: Some are questioning Leon Panetta's lack of intelligence -- lack of experience on intelligence matters. Sorry about that. I know this is tricky for you since you haven't announced him yet but what does he bring to the table for you.</p> <p>OBAMA: Well, as you noted, I haven't made a formal announcement about my intelligence team. That may be him calling now -- finding out where it's at. I have the utmost respect for Leon Panetta. I think that he's one of the finest public servants that we've had. He brings extraordinary management skills, great political savvy, an impeccable record of integrity. As chief of staff, he's somebody who, to the president, he's somebody who was fully versed in international affairs, crisis management, and had to evaluate intelligence consistently on a day-to-day basis. </p> <p>Having said all that, I have not made an announcement. When we make the announcement, I think what people will see is that we are putting together a top-notch intelligence team that is not only going to assure that I get the best possible intelligence -- unvarnished -- but that the intelligence community is no longer geared toward telling the president what they think the president wants to hear but instead are going to be delivering the information that the president needs to make critical decisions to keep the American people safe.<br /> <strong><br /> I think what you're also going to see is a team that is committed to breaking with some of the past practices and concerns that have, I think, tarnished the image of the agencies and intelligence agencies and U.S. foreign policy.</strong> Last point I will make on this is that there are outstanding intelligence professionals in the CIA, DNI and others and I have the utmost regard for the work that they've done and we are committed to making sure that this is a team effort that's not looking backwards but is looking forward to figure out how we're going to serve the American people best.</p></blockquote> <p>Of course, a Panetta appointment would send such a signal, since he has been such a pronounced critic of waterboarding and other such practices indulged by the CIA under Bush.</p> <p>As with all these appointments, though, we should also be looking out for disinformation from the right. Today on Fox, Bill Kristol was trying to stir up opposition to Panetta from the left, pointing out that he was chief of staff at the White House in the 1990s when it began the policy of <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>"extraordinary rendition"</a> (i.e., capturing terrorists and then shipping them to nations where they can be interrogated by governments with fewer prohibitions. </p> <p><span class="clmediaDirectImage"><img src='http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/movieimages/2009/01/7059.dl.jpg' alt="Kristol on Panetta" /></span><br /><span class='clMediaOld'><img src='http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/mediaimages/video_wmv_icon.gif' alt='icon' /> <a href='http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Kristol-Panetta_1-06-09.wmv?mid=7059' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Download</a> | <a href='http://crooksandliars.com/media/play/wmv/7059/25051' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Play</a> <img src='http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/mediaimages/video_qt_icon.gif' alt='icon' /> <a href='http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Kristol-Paneta_1-06-09.mov?mid=7059' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Download</a> | <a href='http://crooksandliars.com/media/play/qt/7059/25051' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Play</a></span></p> <p>It's true that Panetta was CoS at the time Clinton adopted that policy (he signed <a href='http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd39.htm' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>the executive order</a> in June 1995, during Panetta's tenure), but that is not prima facie evidence he favored it. Moreover, rendition under Clinton occurred only occasionally; as compared to the massive program involving hundreds of prisoners it became under Bush.</p> <p>Expect, however, for the question to be raised during confirmation hearings. If it's coming from neocons, though, expect it to turn out to be wrong.</p> <p><a href='http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/3bfOJ4IluGSJRBg_w7dWECZRMxQ/a' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/3bfOJ4IluGSJRBg_w7dWECZRMxQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?a=8HqVG4nc' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?d=41" border="0"></img></a> </div>', '1231331663', '1231331660', '2009-01-07')
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INSERT INTO wp_bdprss_items_v3 (item_feed_id, item_url, item_name, text_body, item_update_time, item_time, item_date) VALUES ('37', 'http://crooksandliars.com/node/25046', 'Destroying the School To Save It', '<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/FL2vh_eT4_s&hl=en&fs=1" width="300" height="243"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FL2vh_eT4_s&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /><param name="type" value="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="width" value="300" /><param name="height" value="243" /></object><p><em>The explosions marked the second time in hours a U.N. school came under attack.</em></p> <p>The Israeli Defense Force has shelled a UN school in the Gaza strip, killing 30 and injuring 55. Israel <a href='http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1053138.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>claims that Hamas militants were using the school as a base to mortar their troops</a>, but the UN says that all the dead and injured were civilians. Even if the IDF were correct, something the Right accepts unquestioningly because the IDF never, <em>ever</em> lies like their enemies do, then Israel would only be responding to Hamas' war crime by <em>committing another war crime</em>. You can't get to the moral high ground - let alone win a COIN operation - by <a href='http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/01/a-question-of-p.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>allowing the rules of war to be set by barbarians</a>, something that the <a href='http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32368_UN_School_Used_by_Terrorists_As_a_Weapons_Dump' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>intellectually and</a> <a href='http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/01/06/bleeding-leading/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>morally bankrupt</a> Right never seems to acknowledge.</p> <p>And there are good reasons to believe that the IDF is simply lying as part of a propaganda war it admits has been eight months in the planning: <a href='http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2009/01/burning-down-the-house.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>the use of indiscriminate white phosphorus airbursts</a>, in contravention of <a href='http://law.bepress.com/expresso/eps/1959/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>international law</a> as it is <a href='http://www.ipb.org/Legal%20Opinion%20I%20on%20White%20Phosphorus.pdf' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>understood</a> <a href='http://www.ipb.org/Legal%20Opinion%20II%20on%20White%20Phosphorus.pdf' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>everywhere</a> except the US and Israel (the 1980 Protocol III to the Convention on Conventional Weapons contains<a href='http://www.crimesofwar.org/onnews/news-fallujah3.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>a blanket restriction</a> on dropping incendiary weapons from the air against military objectives "located within a concentration of civilians"); the way in which the IDF is throwing explosives around so freely that <a href='http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1053120.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>almost as many of its people have been killed by its own "errant' tank shells as by enemy action</a>.</p> <p>Of course they cannot acknowledge this - otherwise their only recourse for all the warmongering they've cheerled in the last eight years would be to commit symbolic sepukku and fall on the swords of their own punditry before vanishing from our public discourse forever.</p> <p><em>Crossposted from Newshoggers</em></p> <p><a href='http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/a4-laEMobjCCetV0mTNxJWa_UwM/a' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/a4-laEMobjCCetV0mTNxJWa_UwM/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?a=dAUyIgqy' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?d=41" border="0"></img></a> </div>', '1231331663', '1231331658', '2009-01-07')
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INSERT INTO wp_bdprss_items_v3 (item_feed_id, item_url, item_name, text_body, item_update_time, item_time, item_date) VALUES ('37', 'http://crooksandliars.com/node/25048', 'Will the Republicans work with Obama to get the economy back on track?', '<script type="text/javascript" src="http://o.aolcdn.com/art/_media/dynanews/ac_runactivecontent.js"></script><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> embedSWF(9, 0, 0, "widget", "recent"); </script><p><noscript>This content requires the most recent version of the Adobe Flash Player. Get this version below:<br /><a href=http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash/>Get Flash</a></noscript></p> <p>AOL used my post called... </p> <blockquote><p><a href='http://crooksandliars.com/node/25028' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Barack Obama highlights quick action and Oversight for his new stimulus package</a> </p></blockquote> <p>...for the basis of their poll question. As I wrote in the post:</p> <blockquote><p>I hope Obama's love affair with bipartisanship will come to an end very soon. Not because I don't think it's a good idea to have both sides working together, but because Conservatives are incapable of doing just that. They do not want Obama to succeed because it will weaken their grip on American politics for years to come at the expense of average Americans just trying to get by.</p> <p>It's about ideology for them and not about the healing that our country is in desperate need of. I think Obama will soon feel their un-partisan wrath sooner rather than later and hopefully it will snap him out of any thought he had that he could work with Conservatives, no matter how "centrist" he goes. </p></blockquote> <p>I doubt they will want to improve the latest <a href='http://crooksandliars.com/node/25047' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Congressional polling numbers</a>...</p> <p><a href='http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/F-leP6AG5UJ4fKjFGAZzUYzAd6s/a' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/F-leP6AG5UJ4fKjFGAZzUYzAd6s/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?a=SfSdO0Ru' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?d=41" border="0"></img></a> </div>', '1231331663', '1231331657', '2009-01-07')
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INSERT INTO wp_bdprss_items_v3 (item_feed_id, item_url, item_name, text_body, item_update_time, item_time, item_date) VALUES ('37', 'http://crooksandliars.com/node/25044', 'Iran: Hezbollah Won't Respond to Gaza Op', '<p>If this mess <a href='http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1053014.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>explodes on two fronts</a>, the volatility of the situation increases exponentially. Just another piece of the BushCo legacy!</p> <blockquote><p>Lebanon's parliament majority leader Saad Hariri on Monday claimed that Hezbollah would not respond to Israel's devastating offensive against Hamas in Gaza.</p> <p>Hariri said that Saeed Jalili, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told him that Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant organization, would not attack Israel from Lebanon.</p> <p>"What Jalili said greatly calms us," Hariri said.</p> <p><strong>The lawmaker's remarks came despite the fact that observers in both Lebanon and Israel are starting to believe some kind of escalation along the Lebanese border is likely if the military operation in Gaza continues.</strong></p> <p>It is far from clear what form this escalation might take. One possibility is relatively small-scale rocket launches, either by Lebanese groups affiliated with the cause of global jihad or by Palestinian groups in Lebanon, which generally coordinate their activities with Hezbollah.</p> <p>Another option is an operation by Hezbollah itself, which would probably be broader in scope.</p> <p><strong>That Hezbollah has been increasing its forces' preparedness in recent weeks is no secret: The organization's leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, announced it publicly the day Israel's operation in Gaza began, and Sheikh Nabil Kauk, the Hezbollah official in charge of south Lebanon, reiterated it Monday.</strong></p> <p>Lebanese analysts believe there is disagreement within Hezbollah: Some senior members favor restraint, while others charge that mere speeches in support of the Palestinians are insufficient, and must be backed up with attacks on Israel.</p> <p><strong>The prevailing view, however, is that if Hamas appears to be weakening, pressure on Hezbollah to intervene would intensify greatly.</strong> "Hezbollah cannot allow Hamas to lose this war," said Ibrahim al-Amin, editor of the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, who is considered close to Nasrallah. </p></blockquote> <p><a href='http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/r1SpPwS4tMY-LBnzhjUIawlSPbs/a' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/r1SpPwS4tMY-LBnzhjUIawlSPbs/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?a=IF5i2CGW' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?d=41" border="0"></img></a> </div>', '1231331663', '1231329646', '2009-01-07')
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INSERT INTO wp_bdprss_items_v3 (item_feed_id, item_url, item_name, text_body, item_update_time, item_time, item_date) VALUES ('37', 'http://crooksandliars.com/node/25038', 'John Bolton Is Unbelievable: Gets Grilled On The BBC Too', '<span class="clmediaDirectImage"><img src='http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/movieimages/2009/01/7057.dl.jpg' alt="JohnBolton-Grilled-BBC" /></span><br /><span class='clMediaOld'><img src='http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/mediaimages/video_wmv_icon.gif' alt='icon' /> <a href='http://movies.crooksandliars.com/JohnBolton-Grilled-BBC.wmv?mid=7057' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Download</a> | <a href='http://crooksandliars.com/media/play/wmv/7057/25038' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Play</a> <img src='http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/mediaimages/video_qt_icon.gif' alt='icon' /> <a href='http://movies.crooksandliars.com/JohnBolton-Grilled-BBC.mov?mid=7057' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Download</a> | <a href='http://crooksandliars.com/media/play/qt/7057/25038' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Play</a></span> <br><br> I've had this incredible <a href='http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=7222' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>video of John Bolton</a> getting grilled on the BBC over the Iraq war sitting on my servers for a while now and after the holiday I was quickly reminded of it by his <a href='http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/opinion/05bolton.html?_r=3' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>new article with John Yoo</a>. He flails away about how bad Saddam was in the past and how he should have been removed in 1991, which led to this response: <blockquote> John, my relatives are Sunni, Christian and Shi'ite. They've been living under Saddam's dictatorship for thirty years. I've lost more relatives in the last four years, than under 30 years of Saddam. So, I don't think that you can tell me how dangerous Saddam's dictatorship was. The good news is that the American people, who I love defeated Bush in the mid-term elections. That was really, really good news.</blockquote> However, you <a href='http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=15157' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'> still can't make up this garbage that appeared in the NY Times</a>. <blockquote>No one could have predicted this would happen. John Yoo and John Bolton, in the NY Times, discuss the <a href='http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/opinion/05bolton.html?_r=2' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>need to limit executive authority</a>. Up next, David Addington and Dick Cheney write in the Washington Post on the need to reject Unitary Executive theory. I knew these wankers would do this, I just didn’t expect it immediately and so brazenly.</blockquote> Torture Yoo and John Bolton are embarrassments to this country. Whenever he appears on TV, he should be held up as the face of the complete and utter failure of the Bush administration and their Iraq war.(h/t Brian) <p><a href='http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/n42IYmvchV-g0-GSM30tVzZl6oU/a' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/n42IYmvchV-g0-GSM30tVzZl6oU/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?a=6kTa2Vs9' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?d=41" border="0"></img></a> </div>', '1231331663', '1231325400', '2009-01-07')
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INSERT INTO wp_bdprss_items_v3 (item_feed_id, item_url, item_name, text_body, item_update_time, item_time, item_date) VALUES ('37', 'http://crooksandliars.com/node/25047', 'Guess why Congress poll numbers are so bad: Republicans', '<p><img src='http://crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/2009/01/Gallop-Republicans_59861.jpg' width='324' height='175' /></p> <p>We've heard and seen many news reports about how unpopular Congress is with the American people. And it is at an all time low, but what most TV analysts are refusing to point out is that it's the Republicans in Congress that are dragging down the approval rating. As a new <a href='http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2009/01/will-gop-obstructionism-backfire.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Gallup poll shows us--Republicans in Congress Less Popular Than Bush</a>:</p> <blockquote><p> As <a href='http://www.gallup.com/poll/113449/Republicans-Congress-Less-Popular-Than-Bush.aspx' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Gallup</a> showed last month, congressional Democrats are significantly more esteemed than Bush-- and significantly more esteemed than their Republican colleagues in Congress. According to the latest Gallup Poll, 67% of Americans disapprove of Bush, while 69% disapprove of Republicans in the House and Senate and only 55% disapprove of Democrats in the House and Senate.</p></blockquote> <p>I've talked to some of our Blue America candidates and they told me that since '06, the Republicans did everything they could to block and obstruct the daily business of the Congress in hopes that America would have a bad opinion of the House and Senate and it would lead to them retaking or making big gains in <a href='http://www.gallup.com/poll/113449/Republicans-Congress-Less-Popular-Than-Bush.aspx' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>'08 and 2010</a>. </p> <blockquote><p> The 25% approval rating for the Republicans in Congress establishes a new Gallup Poll low, surpassing the 26% measured about this time last year. Gallup first began asking about approval of the Congressional parties in 1999.</p></blockquote> <p>Well, Americans aren't buying their <em>me first---America second</em> attitude and in the end if they obstruct Obama's agenda from the outset then they will only fall deeper into the dark hole they have dug for themselves and America. I'm hoping they do just that so it knocks out some of the bipartisan rhetoric Obama is using, because they will not be willing players in the restoration of America and hand Obama a win. Never. Going. To. Happen. I think Obama will get his first stimulus package through with some grumblings from the Mitch McConnell wing and then it'll go downhill from there.</p> <p>As the Gallup poll points out for all to see: Nobody likes "Republicans."</p> <p><a href='http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/EUoj1dSxvoBkTfcE8qCDbCeQze4/a' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/EUoj1dSxvoBkTfcE8qCDbCeQze4/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?a=8o970SIo' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/crooksandliars/YaCP?d=41" border="0"></img></a> </div>', '1231331663', '1231331654', '2009-01-07')
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